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adding text on interpretation and adoption
It is extremely common to set out expecting to discover one thing and instead to discover another (e.g. [[Penicillin|Fleming]], Jansky, Kamerlingh Onnes, and innumerable others). This is so common that it even has a name: serendipity. Serendipity is not blind [[luck]]. It is the opposite of blind luck; it is the kind of luck that you earn by being smart and keeping your eyes open. [http://www.av8n.com/physics/scientific-methods.htm]
It is extremely common to set out expecting to discover one thing and instead to discover another (e.g. [[Penicillin|Fleming]], Jansky, Kamerlingh Onnes, and innumerable others). This is so common that it even has a name: ''serendipity''. Serendipity is not blind [[luck]]. It is the opposite of blind luck; it is the kind of luck that you earn by being smart and keeping your eyes open. [http://www.av8n.com/physics/scientific-methods.htm]
See: [[Scientific method]]
After an scientific discovery has been made the difficulty is to have it properly interpreted and adopted.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Sunday Gentleman
[[category: science]]
|author=Irving Wallace
|year=1965
|page=334
|url=http://books.google.com/books?ei=4kM8UdymCOWB4ATgn4HYDQ&id=Zytex3Q42BIC&dq=Irving+Wallace+The+sunday+gentlemen&q=discoverues+understood#search_anchor|quote=...the difficulty is less in discovering than in having discoveries understood and adopted.}}</ref>
==References==
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== See Also: ==
*[[Scientific method]]
[[Category:Methodology of Science]]
[[Category: Philosophy of science]]
[[Category: science]]